Reflexes Quotes
105 quotes by 92 authors
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And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes…
— Jacky Ickx
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From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense…
— Terry Eagleton
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How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.
— Bill Gates
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Too often our Washington reflex is to discover a problem and then throw money at it, hoping it will somehow go away.
— Kenneth Keating
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For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field'…
— C. Wright Mills
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Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the…
— Francis Schaeffer
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Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines)…
— Guy Davenport
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For all healing, mental or material, is attuning each atom of the body, each reflex of the brain forces, to the awareness of the divine…
— Edgar Cayce
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
— W. Edwards Deming
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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
— G. Stanley Hall
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I believe you can never change a habit, or create one, with a word or a piece of chalk. You can talk all day, put…
— Pete Newell
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To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdalaâ€â€”the home of the fight-or-flight reflex—“is as limiting as saying that my personality…
— Scott Stossel
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The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions,…
— George Steiner
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Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made up of sensations…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles... It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and let go again…
— Marge Piercy
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If you could have the arms of Hercules, legs as swift as the wind. If you could leap shoulder high above the rim, have the…
— Andrea Bocelli
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If I were asked to name one aspect of tennis that is the biggest weakness of players of all levels, I would probably say concentration.…
— Unknown Author
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Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, “I have sinned.†The surest sign that God is at work in his life is…
— Oswald Chambers
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What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.
— Timothy Leary
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My eyesight's gone, my reflexes are shot, and I can't stay awake, but thank God I can still drive.
— Robert Breault
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